Curated playlist
Wars involving Australia
- Iraq WarThe Iraq War's main reason, weapons of mass destruction, turned out to be false.
- 2003 invasion of IraqThe 2003 invasion of Iraq opened with an airstrike on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad on the 20th of March 2003. It was the first stage of the Iraq War, and it lasted just over a month. A coalition led by the United States carried it…
- Vietnam WarOn March 8, 1965, 3,500 US Marines waded ashore near Da Nang, starting America's ground war in Vietnam.
- Second Boer WarIn the Second Boer War's Black Week, Britain lost three battles to farmer marksmen.
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)The war in Afghanistan lasted from 2001 to 2021, and it became the longest war in United States military history. It ran six months longer than the Vietnam War. A United States-led coalition launched it under the name Operation Enduring…
- Gulf WarA rounding error in a Patriot missile's computer let a Scud kill 28 US soldiers in Saudi Arabia.
- Malayan EmergencyBritain fought guerrillas in Malaya that it had once trained and armed.
- Anglo-Iraqi WarIn May 1941, a British flying school struck first against a besieging Iraqi army.
- Korean WarThe UN approved force in Korea because the Soviet Union was absent. It had boycotted the Council since January 1950.
- World War IIHistorians still disagree about the day World War II began. Most choose 1 September 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.
- World War IWorld War I began with two pistol shots in a Sarajevo street. Gavrilo Princip's shots killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
- War on terrorThe war on terror aimed at a tactic, not a country. The U.S. began it after the September 11 attacks.